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A friend of mine had the OB nicked off his boat in Balintore harbour. The replacement one he spray painted in bright green and yellow...

All the ones I have had 3.5 to 5 HP won't let you pull the cord if not in neutral. Never tried one of these egg whisks without gears...

Aren't OB's supposed to have an interlock so you can't start them in gear? Every one I owned had. In the video it looks like he...

I am old school. I have enough old 60/40 lead solder to last me out. I hate the lead free stuff. I also gave up trying to solder the...

We day sail a lot. We can have the sails up 5 minutes after leaving the harbour. Harbour with parking on site and a short walk along...

As @ProDave states, we do get these from the river, but also from the port of Inverness, which handles a 'tree tanker' every couple of...

Usual up here, rivers feed into the firth and each winter storm will bring some whole trees down river into the firth.

We deployed the anchor very swiftly on the one occasion entering the harbour in a gale, lee shore and the OB stopped 100 yards out. The...

If you can't unplug the aerial then any reading is meaningless unless you know how it is connected at the top. There will be some form...

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What that video does not show, is to dewater it, they put the stop boards in at both ends, then they literally go and fish out a big...

That's where you went wrong. you forgot to even take the flappy things with you.

If only you had pulled a few bits of that string and put the flappy things up (tip, they should not flap while actually in use) you...

Except then he changed for a bigger boat, a Hunter Minstral 23 and found it a revalation compared to his Mirror, and then later changed...

Even cheaper if your doner is 47Kg